I really don't understand why we're watching the world economy go into freefall for social distancing when we could just quarantine those vulnerable to the disease. This only ends when every single person is immune to the disease, so wouldn't it make sense to quarantine those who could die from the disease and then let it run its course? It's incredibly frustrating.
Know what's even more frustrating, though? That's still an option.
Herd immunity is good on paper. Corona virus isnt like chicken pox; you get the common cold often, maybe multiple times a year. If we let this run wild and infect 100 million folks even with a .5% death rate, we're looking at 500,000 dead folks. Also you run the risk of getting mutated versions of this virus when you let it fester in a healthy population. It may work for denmark or other small countries but they're relying on draining their neighbor countries of resources if it goes south. America has too many folks to do that reasonably. We've started this path of drastically reducing the spread, which seems to be working in China and we're also around the corner from warmer weather which will reduce transmission rates. Someone will come up with a vaccine and we'll kick this thing. It'll be a western country, if not America that develops it and I'm going to guess we'll manufacture the cure,not ship it to China. Now on that note, we think theres a crazy run on TP, wait till the cure is found but not released to the public. Things will be very nasty at that point and there will be huge finger pointing at every death. It will be like when the polio cure was released and the entire country rushed their doc.